Project 3: Losing My Religion
Self Expression by Religion
Discussion Questions: How is religion relative to art? What ways can you express your religion through art? What are common religions? What are uncommon religions?
Activity: Review the work of Shahzia Sikander. Discuss her life and role in religious and spiritual artwork. Discuss how she reflects religion in her art as well as her background of Muslim and Islamic religions. Other contemporary artworks to discuss are Beryl Korot, Ann Hamilton, John Feodorov, and James Turrell. Be sure to not only read their information, but watch the videos for a more in depth discussion on these particular artists.
As a class, make a list of religions. Briefly research these religions together and further discuss what makes up that religion. Be sure to discuss religions from each continent. Some religions to discuss would be Catholicism, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Rastafarian, Samaritanism, Folk, and Scientology.
Further discuss how these religions are expressed creatively. Creative outlets would include but not be limited to songs, writing, music, painting, ceramics, fashion and dance. Ask the students to explore these creative options by viewing or listening to the religious art samples provided. The samples provided could be to listening to the lyrics and music of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” or REM’s “Losing my Religion.” Discuss the words of these songs and what they were expressing through Visual Culture when creating these artworks. Discuss the music videos of these songs as well. Discuss other music that expresses religion. Look at paintings, sculptures and scroll ink drawings such as the work here from the Song Dynasty. Discuss how they represent Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. Review fashion and dance movements from the Yoruba tribal religion of Africa, such as the one sample attached. Discuss how their fashion is relative to creative expression.
Once the research, discussion, and review are complete, assign students a religion. The students can work individually or in a group. They are to create an artwork of self-expression using visual culture that represents the given religion. More research will be required on their part and their medium of choice can be unlimited. Suggestions of self-expression using this topic would be write and sing a song, written music, fashion, dance, paintings, drawings or ceramics. The work would be reflective of their discussion and research and could include a written description paper.
Assessment: Self-Assessment, How well were students able to connect their religion to self-expression? To what extent did the student follow through with the visual representation of that religion?
Each student will complete the self assessment form for this assignment. The extended version of the document is also included for a "first timer" that does not use this evaluation all of the time. (evaluation based off of the AP Studio course guidelines for evaluation)
References:
http://www.googleartproject.com/
http://www.metmuseum.org/
http://www.artnet.com/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Huxisanxiaotu.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/The_Childrens_Museum_of_Indianapolis__Egungun_masquerade_dance_garment.jpg
http://www.happenstand.com/images/upload/0/5966/1301789229.jpghttp://www.pbs.org/art21/series/seasonone/spirituality.html#sikander
Activity: Review the work of Shahzia Sikander. Discuss her life and role in religious and spiritual artwork. Discuss how she reflects religion in her art as well as her background of Muslim and Islamic religions. Other contemporary artworks to discuss are Beryl Korot, Ann Hamilton, John Feodorov, and James Turrell. Be sure to not only read their information, but watch the videos for a more in depth discussion on these particular artists.
As a class, make a list of religions. Briefly research these religions together and further discuss what makes up that religion. Be sure to discuss religions from each continent. Some religions to discuss would be Catholicism, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Rastafarian, Samaritanism, Folk, and Scientology.
Further discuss how these religions are expressed creatively. Creative outlets would include but not be limited to songs, writing, music, painting, ceramics, fashion and dance. Ask the students to explore these creative options by viewing or listening to the religious art samples provided. The samples provided could be to listening to the lyrics and music of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” or REM’s “Losing my Religion.” Discuss the words of these songs and what they were expressing through Visual Culture when creating these artworks. Discuss the music videos of these songs as well. Discuss other music that expresses religion. Look at paintings, sculptures and scroll ink drawings such as the work here from the Song Dynasty. Discuss how they represent Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. Review fashion and dance movements from the Yoruba tribal religion of Africa, such as the one sample attached. Discuss how their fashion is relative to creative expression.
Once the research, discussion, and review are complete, assign students a religion. The students can work individually or in a group. They are to create an artwork of self-expression using visual culture that represents the given religion. More research will be required on their part and their medium of choice can be unlimited. Suggestions of self-expression using this topic would be write and sing a song, written music, fashion, dance, paintings, drawings or ceramics. The work would be reflective of their discussion and research and could include a written description paper.
Assessment: Self-Assessment, How well were students able to connect their religion to self-expression? To what extent did the student follow through with the visual representation of that religion?
Each student will complete the self assessment form for this assignment. The extended version of the document is also included for a "first timer" that does not use this evaluation all of the time. (evaluation based off of the AP Studio course guidelines for evaluation)
References:
http://www.googleartproject.com/
http://www.metmuseum.org/
http://www.artnet.com/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Huxisanxiaotu.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/The_Childrens_Museum_of_Indianapolis__Egungun_masquerade_dance_garment.jpg
http://www.happenstand.com/images/upload/0/5966/1301789229.jpghttp://www.pbs.org/art21/series/seasonone/spirituality.html#sikander
